Our history

Not far from Rødekro is a town called Aabenraa – In 1649, the county gave the man of Aabenraa named von Winterfeldt, his gunner Nis permission to build a new krobygning by Bridge over Rødeå and loaned him money there.

The bridge, Rødebro, have probably had some strategic importance Hærvejen, and therefore it was a natural place to build an inn.

As fate would have it, the county’s unmarried cook waited a happy event – it gave parikel opposite the parish priest, when the girl would not give the name of the father. Nis married girl, so everything worked out.